Youth Policy Development in South East Europe

The second seminar on Youth Policy Development in South East Europe took place in Belgrade from September 22nd to 24th. The seminar was co-organized by Ministry of Youth and Sports, Council of Europe and Youth Partnership Program of the Council of Europe and the European Commission. It was opened by Snežana Samardžić Marković, the minister for youth and sports and Hanjo Schild, director of the Youth Partnership program.

South East European countries - Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece and Turkey presented practices of youth policy development on institutional, research and civil society level. The representative of the European Youth Forum Ante Martić presented work of  the European Youth Forum and the practices of youth policy development in Europe. Croatian Youth Network was represented by Emina Bužinkić who showed institutional and civic contributions to youth policy development in Croatia. Additionally, international organization working in the region elaborated their work.

The seminar was relevant opportunity for exchanging best practice models of youth policy development and connecting stakeholders from the region. During the event concrete partnerships were established as well as the ideas of mutual projects were discussed. Croatian Youth Network, Youth Informing Agency (BiH) and association Citizens' initiatives established longterm cooperation on developing youth policy in the region according to the european standards.